Working or Internship at our restaurant-- Stage

venerdì 21 gennaio 2011

Working or Internship at our restaurant-- Stage

If you are an EU citizen, there are no problems.

If you are Canadian / Australian you should apply for a “working / holiday visa” at the Italian Embassy (or local consulate) in your country. They are relatively easy to obtain (no specific requirements) and last 6 months.

If you are American, you need either a “visa for work” (not a tourist visa) which must be applied for in very good time. The only other solution is a scholastic program through an authorized institution in Italy who provides all the necessary insurance that is required. This is the best solution we’ve been able to find with the Dante Alighieri language school in Siena: 2 weeks of Italian language studies at the school of Dante Alighieri in Siena.

12 weeks of work (6-8 hrs per day) at our Slow Food restaurant “Officina della Cucina Popolare” in Colle Val d’Elsa.

Our restaurant will offer room and board for the entire period (14 weeks).

Please contact us for cost of program

1 commento:

Joey Sienicki23 dicembre 2011 alle ore 23:54
The people, the restaurant, the town are all amazing. I did a 3 month stage at Officina this fall. Matteo and Ilaria went out of their way to be accommodating, even special ordering a turkey so me and another intern wouldn't miss our North American Thanksgiving. Doing the stage, you'll learn about fresh pastas and other traditional Tuscan dishes, and get to know most everyone in the small, friendly town.

On a typical day, we'd go in at 10am for prep (rolling pasta, making sauce...), do lunch service, take a break around 3/4pm til 6pm then return for our staff dinner and dinner service. We lived in a nice apartment with a kitchen just a block away. Outside of the restaurant, it was cool experiencing the change in season, the harvest festivals, and other Tuscan towns like Florence, Siena, Volterra... I couldn't have picked a better place to do a stage.
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Working at Officina Della Cucina Popolare was an amazing experience which changed the way I look at myself as a cook as well as how I think a restaurant and, more specifically, a kitchen should run. After just a few short hours in the Officina kitchen I saw that nothing ever went to waste. Every little scrap of meat, every part of every vegetable had found its place somewhere on the menu or on in our delicious family meals. Egg shells, bones, and scraps from dishes became compost that would be used to grow more beautiful fruits and vegetables for the kitchen to use. Furthermore, I learned that both Chefs treated the recipes as guidelines and not as written law. After being told that sometimes one batch of flour is “more thirsty” then the last or that one lemon can taste stronger than another, I learned to change the way I cook. I learned to judge pasta dough by the sound it makes when you slap it; to recognize the correct time to add pasta water to the oil and pepper by watching the pepper dance; when to deglaze a pan of lamb or rabbit based on the change in sound. By relying less on constantly watching one or two pans and allowing myself to trust my other senses I learned that I could do more and could move more freely in the kitchen. Also by working with two different chefs I got to see every aspect of every dish, from preparation to garnish, I had a hand in every element of every dish. The greatest lessons I learned at Officina have formed the ideal of what I look for in a restaurant now. At Officina everyone worked as a team, if you didn’t have a project at the moment, you looked up and down the line and found something to do. When we would have large parties the kitchen became like a production line with one person lining up plates for someone else to build the dish while a third followed and garnished or touched up the presentation. We all jumped between stations and covered for each other to make sure everything ran as smoothly as possible. I specifically enjoyed the feeling of togetherness between the kitchen staff and the dining room staff. It felt like there wasn’t a separation between the front of house and back of house team. It was a common sight to see servers in the kitchen early in the morning peeling onions and carrots for sauce before they set up the dining room for that day’s service. It was not unheard of for the chefs to take orders from tables or run food if the night got busy enough. We ate our family meals together, we drank wine together, we laughed together and once or twice we even cried together. I don’t think of the staff of Officina as former co-workers, I think of them as family members. Greg Cerretani U.S.A intern at Officina from August to September 2011

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